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This past September, a new platform for intercultural partnerships was born at UBC. Mahima Kapoor, a fourth-year science student, founded Partners In Kind, formerly the AMS Afya Club. The program utilizes video chat platforms such as Skype or FaceTime to facilitate communication between current UBC students and prospective students abroad, as well as younger school-aged children.

“You just kind of check-in and say, ‘Hey, I’m across the world!’” said Kapoor, who herself was born in India but has lived in Vancouver for 13 years.

Kapoor, who also serves as the club’s president, said she wanted to form a club that would create a sense of community and belonging among UBC students, while also serving a larger, global purpose.

Volunteers sign up and undergo basic mentorship training and are then paired with mentees with similar academic goals, interests or hobbies.

“I like thinking on an international scale,” Kapoor explained.

Her other service efforts include forming and leading the Afya Club at UBC, an initiative affiliated with the Afya Foundation, which provides disaster relief funds to countries in need of resources.

While the club was successful in raising donations in previous years, feedback from students suggested that charity work is not always engaging enough to sustain contribution.

Through her experience, Kapoor came up with the idea to create a digital mentorship program through which students can build tangible relationships with the people they are helping.

“Acting in a global way makes you feel like you’re part

of something bigger than just UBC,” said Kapoor. “It helps get the name out about UBC as well, because we are a very international school already.”

Currently, Partners In Kind has been launched exclusively in Kenya, though Kapoor wants to expand the program worldwide once the club gains more traction. There are two schools that have agreed to implement the digital mentorship so far, and with the help of UBC alumni and recruitment representatives, Kapoor has already secured their participation in the program.

“Initially we’re going to be talking to the teachers a lot to see what kind of classes they have, what personalities they have in their classrooms, and who’s interested, because not every student on their end is going to be interested in something like this,” Kapoor said.

As Partners In Kind begins to test the project’s sustainability, mentorships will last for the duration of the term with the possibility to be renewed if both the mentor and mentee are interested.

Ultimately, it is the engagement of UBC students that will determine the program’s success because there is still room to expand the club’s size and scope.

“As the program becomes more developed, the mentor and the student will get to decide what they want to talk about,” said Kapoor, citing life skills, time management and post-secondary applications as foreseeable topics.

Kapoor admits that one of the hardships she had in the beginning of her club’s formation was familiarizing herself with the processes that enable an AMS club to run smoothly.

“I’d never done that before.

Even simple things like taking meeting minutes, I didn’t know what the appropriate format is

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for hosting a meeting [or] hosting elections,” she recalled.

The executive training sessions led by the AMS introduced her to the terminology and basics of club execution, but it was advice from UBC representatives in Kenya that really helped her get over the learning curve.

“It’s definitely tricky doing anything internationally,” Kapoor said. “Our on-[the]-ground representatives are going to help facilitate the conversations that need to happen between us and the teachers.”

As the project looks to launch this month, Kapoor said she would like to see alumni get involved as mentors, as they have a different experience to offer as working professionals. She added that it also would encourage current mentors to build lasting relationships with their partner students.

“It’s not like [mentorship] ends after graduation.”

While Kapoor looks to expand the program, she also acknowledges that Partners In Kind is not the only mentorship program available — the idea to help younger students abroad has been done before.

“There are companies and nonprofits that are [doing similar things], but doing it as a smaller club is great for students and gives them a sense of leadership.”

What sets Partners In Kind apart from other programs is the ability for mentorship to extend beyond the classroom, according to Kapoor.

“The great thing about it is that they don’t have to have any expertise. It’s just your experiences that make you a good mentor,” Kapoor explained, noting that anyone, regardless of academic pursuit or interest, can sign up to be a mentor.

“Students don’t realize how much knowledge they actually have [to offer].” U

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UBC students to take part in UN conference on climate change

AMS silent on cost as multiple businesses shut down or change names Jack Hauen Coordinating Editor

Five UBC students will be participating in COP23 in Bonn, Germany.

Morika DeAngelis Contributor

This November, five UBC undergraduate students will be participating in the Conference of Parties (COP23) in Bonn, Germany.

The UN conference on climate change will focus on the Paris Climate Agreement (PCA), the Kyoto Protocol and the effects of the United States’ recent exit from the PCA ratification process.

The students will be involved in this process through YOUNGO, the youth constituency of the conference that is made up of both youth-focused groups and individuals.

“All the youth of the world are represented through youth NGOs (YOUNGO), and through this, we can lobby parties and countries,” said Benjamin Georges-Picot, a second-year arts student. “We can interact with these countries to advocate for more environmental policies, furthering our goals and better objectives down the road.”

Their involvement is also facilitated by the British Columbia Council for International Cooperation (BCCIC). As a member of the Climate Action Network (CAN), the organization works to implement the United Nations’ sustainable development goals and monitors Canada’s progress with climate action treaties, like the Paris Climate Agreement.

In particular, they will be representing the interests of British Columbian youth on climate action and sustainable development as part of the BC Youth Delegation, which is housed under BCCIC. “The policies being worked on at this convention have ramifications for every single person on earth, and in order for us to achieve these targets that we set

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out, we require global cooperation,” said Colton Kasteel, a fourth-year international economics major.

“That’s what we’re setting out to do, advocate for a better future, and we will work with every single country to do that.”

Kasteel, who also advocates for climate finance within the Youth Delegation, further emphasized the importance of their presence at the conference.

“It’s a pretty pivotal time to take action regarding climate change, and I think representing BC youth specifically is pretty huge,” Kasteel said. “Our province really drives a lot of green initiatives and green voices. It’s exciting and it’s important.”

To Keila Stark, a fourth-year marine biology and political science student, taking part in the conference is even more important for students with a science background like herself.

“I have a science background ... and I strongly believe that scientists don’t play enough of a role in politics,” said Stark.

“I’d like to be a part of that movement of the next generation of scientists that’s comfortable with going to conferences like this and participating in this kind of discourse.”

In preparation for the conference, the youth delegation is working with student-led organizations on campus for feedback and consultations on youth engagement.

“Every single one of us are more than happy to talk to any UBC student about their opinions on this things [and] they are more than welcome to reach out and express their opinions on policy, science or economics or anything that intersects,” said Kasteel.

“We want to really truly represent their voices.” U

All of the AMS-run restaurants that opened with the Nest, with the exceptions of Grand Noodle Emporium and the Pit, have either changed their name or shut down.

The AMS has declined to discuss the financial impact of its failed or revamped businesses, though meeting minutes from 2013 provide insight into how much the union has spent on several logo changes in a two-year period.

Perch, a high-end dining restaurant; Lowercase, a coffee shop; and Palate, a soup and sandwich shop, all shut down in 2016 due to poor performance.

AMS President Alan Ehrenholz said Palate will reopen soon with a focus on vegan and vegetarian food, possibly as Garden Grove — the name has “gone back and forth.”

FlipSide — a burger joint — closed this year to make way for Iwana Taco, a Mexican place, but Ehrenholz said it will reopen in the near future as a food truck, which the AMS bought for an undisclosed amount.

Ehrenholz also declined to comment on expenses related to creating names and logos, hiring staff, buying furniture and equipment, or any other cost sunk into a closed-down restuarant.

“It’s just due to our internal — we have a desire to ensure that we’re not giving away too much information to our competitors,” he said. “Same as a contract, it’s just not good business practice.”

Ehrenholz said the AMS changed FlipSide into Iwana Taco due to students’ demands for a Mexican place in the Nest food survey last year. He refused to talk about how much the AMS spent on the logo or any costs involved with switching a burger place into a Mexican restaurant,

“A big old mess.”

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Lowercase, a coffee shop on the bottom floor of the Nest, closed last year because more students went to Uppercase (now Blue Chip Cafe) instead.

other than the fact that the space was “designed with the intent to be flexible.”

He said there were “a couple expenditures” related to the switch, but refused to elaborate.

CHANGING NAMES Pie R Squared (formerly Boom!

Pizza); Honour Roll (formerly Peko Peko); and Blue Chip Cafe (formerly Uppercase) have undergone name and logo changes. All three changed their names from their current ones for the Nest opening, then eventually switched back.

The AMS sunk about $5,000 into the name Boom! Pizza before they reverted it to Pie R Squared before the Nest opened, largely because students thought “Boom!” was silly — “a big old mess,” according to Ehrenholz.

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Ehrenholz said the AMS decided to switch the names back now to compete with the bigger food brands opening up around the Nest.

“When we look at something like a Blue Chip, people identify with the Blue Chip brand. People identify with Honour Roll because they remember Honour Roll from the old space,” he said.

AMS restaurants in the Old SUB were last operational in 2014/15, meaning the crop of students who have never seen the original Blue Chip are currently in their third year.

The only hint as to how much name changes could have cost the AMS comes from a 2013 Business Administration and Governance Board (BAGB) committee meeting minutes, when they considered ditching Boom! — which they had paid design firm Glasfurd and Walker to make for them — and revert back to Pie R Squared.

It cost $5,000 to change the name back before any signage had been manufactured. As for going with Boom!, keeping it for a year, then switching back to Pie R Squared — the same thing that happened to Blue Chip and Honour Roll — would have been “way more than $5,000.”

Ehrenholz said that no matter how much was spent changing restaurants’ names or shutting them down, it was spent in the student interest.

“It’s to serve students, right?” he said.

“We’re learning what students are doing in the Nest, how they’re using the Nest, what they want to see in the Nest. That’s why some of these decisions to rebrand were made — because the students are telling us they do want different things in the building than we originally put in.” U

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Activists and profs discuss race and belonging as tribute to interned Japanese-Canadians Lawrence Ge Staff Writer

Yesterday, UBC hosted a Day of Learning to commemorate the 75th anniversary of JapaneseCanadian internment, which saw the “mass exodus of 23,000 Japanese-Canadians” during the Second World War and their forced relocation from BC following the war.

The event also marked the fifth anniversary of the honourary degree ceremony for the 76 Japanese-Canadian students who were expelled from UBC during this period.

Prior to their expulsion, the Japanese Student’s Club sent a letter to The Ubyssey on January 9, 1942, asking for acceptance from the wider community on behalf of its Japanese-Canadian members.

“We have avowed unflinching allegiance to Canada … Where else would one find … so much thoughtfulness, tolerance and friendliness as we enjoy in America?” read the letter.

Still, they were expelled in the following month and were subsequently removed from the province along with thousands of other Japanese Canadians.

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76 Japanese-Canadian students were expelled from UBC during this period.

Comprised of four different events, the Day of Learning explored topics of race and belonging, with the Japanese-Canadian internment as the focus of dicussion. The opening panel focused on how one

can learn from this history in order to resolve today’s issues of race.

Human Rights Activist Mary Kitagawa recounted her experience of living through Japanese-Canadian internment,

which was described as similar to “living like animals” or “being treated like criminals.”

Professor Dr. Henry Yu, a specialist in Asian-Canadian history, explained that the condition was a successful implementation of ethnic cleansing by the provincial government.

“The BC government sold their property and belongings so that they had nothing to come back to,” said Yu. “That’s why the majority of Japanese-Canadians never returned to BC.” He also pointed out that Japanese-Canadians were kept out of BC for another four years after World War II, thus questioning the government’s justification of security in the first place.

“That needs to be talked about, because it really points to larger issues,” said Yu. The second event gave insight into the experiences of today’s Japanese-Canadian activists, and the third delved into past and present legislations and how law can be used as a means to discriminate.

“There is a tendency to go back and say these are all things that won’t ever get repeated again,” said Dr. Ben Goold, a law professor at UBC. “That’s just not

true … Canadian society and many democratic societies are rife with examples where law issues are a tool of exclusion.”

The final event explored racism more holistically. The panel examined Canada’s history of discrimination beyond JapaneseCanadian internment in order to find answers to today’s problems of race and belonging.

“This conversation is really about understanding who we are [in] a country that was built around exclusion,” said Yu in his public address.

In an interview with The Ubyssey, Yu then posed a question with regards to the Indian Residential School System, another discriminatory system that has had long-lasting effects on the targeted population.

“Why is it that … we need so much public education for people to even be aware of its devastating effects?” said Yu. “It’s because of what we learned about what Canada is, that we have to do a bunch of unlearning.

“It’s a Day of Learning, but I would actually say, often it’s as much about unlearning. Unlearning certain ideas of what Canada’s for, who it’s for and who belongs.” U

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#TextbookbrokeBC campaign finds 1,000 students spend over $400,000 on textbooks Isaac Fairbairn Contributor

Over $400,000 was spent by the 1,000 UBC students on textbooks surveyed during the first week of this semester, according to the AMS #textbookbrokeBC campaign. Its booth, set up outside UBC Bookstore for the third successive year, invited passing students to record how much they had spent on textbooks for the upcoming semester.

The revamped and refocused campaign effort of 2017 saw the number of students participating rise from 44 in 2016 to over 1,000 this year. A statement from Cristina Ilnitchi, AMS campaign and outreach commissioner, claims that the greatly increased student involvement speaks to the widespread nature of this issue. “[Textbook pricing] affects almost every student, and this momentum shows that UBC students are ready to mobilize for a long term solution,” said Ilnitchi.

The solution championed by the #textbookbrokeBC campaign is the usage of open educational resources (OERs). These open access classroom tools can be utilized, redistributed and edited without cost.

AMS President Alan Ehrenholz is hoping that the AMS #textbookbrokeBC campaign will prove successful in facilitating a

productive conversation between the student body and professors about the benefits of OERs. “We know that for students affordability is key,” said Ehrenholz in an interview with The Ubyssey. “Affordability of education, affordability of textbooks and the affordability of this institution is very important, and that’s what we’re really advocating for.”

“If students can’t afford the required course materials, who are we saying higher education is reserved for?”

- DR. RAJIV JHANGIANI, KWANTLEN UNIVERSITY

A student in Dr. Jonathan Ichikawa’s PHIL 220 class, where the required course textbook has been substituted for a freely available OER, says that not only has it saved her potentially hundreds of dollars, but that she

“We know that for students affordability is key.”

finds it far more convenient to study from a textbook which is regularly updated and improved by her professor.

Textbook affordability has become increasingly relevant, with prices having risen four times the rate of inflation in the last decade, according to Professor Dr. Rajiv Jhangiani of

Surrey’s Kwantlen Polytechnic University. In an interview with CTV News, Jhangiani noted that the crux of the provincial #textbookbrokeBC campaign is a social justice issue, and said, “If students can’t afford the required course materials, who are we saying higher education is reserved for?”

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Ehrenholz said that the AMS is hoping that continued campus-wide engagement with #textbookbrokeBC will result not only in students saving money, but the establishment of a level playing field in which classmates will be guaranteed access to the same materials and resources regardless of their financial situation. U

OCTOBER 17, 2017 TUESDAY | news | 5 DISCUSSION EVENT //

UBC Free Speech club puts free speech up for debate Joshua Azizi Staff Writer

On October 12, the UBC Free Speech Club put the concept of free speech itself up for debate with an event titled “Questioning Free Speech.”

The event featured three UBC professors who discussed the roles, limits and ramifications of the concept. In particular, two analyzed how language can become harmful and how free speech can unequivocally benefit the privileged. The third argued in favour of a libertarian approach that supports the free exchange of ideas.

After their presentations, students broke off into groups overseen by moderators to discuss the topics of the night.

“We thought it would be funny essentially to not be hypocritical about our support of free speech, because if you support free speech, then even free speech itself has to be up for debate,” said Jordan Schroeder, the president of the Free Speech Club. “Maybe the purpose of the event wasn’t to change people’s minds, but definitely to expose everybody to the other side.”

WORDS, LANGUAGE AND VIOLENCE The first presenter was sociology Professor Dr. Rima Wilkes, whose speech was organized around the question of whether words can be considered violence.

She said that a week before she was invited to the event, she received a derogatory email from an anonymous source who was angry about Wilkes’s comments in an article about the Free Speech Club. In the email, she was called a “leftist-marxist ideologue” who was undeserving of her academic position, [the person’s] tax dollars and “the sacrifice of his family in defence of our freedoms.”

“I did not respond because I read this and felt that this wasn’t about engagement or [an] exchange or ideas — this was about attack,” she said.

Though she did not consider the email to be violent, she emphasized that she felt “kind of crappy” after reading it and then encouraged people to avoid trying to cause others pain when discussing sensitive topics.

Wilkes later asked the audience to consider the difference between discussion and debate. “[Debate is] about winning, and I’m not interested in that,” she said. “I just don’t find that to be the most constructive way of moving forward.

“Discussion — on the other hand — is about process and growth, and how we think about the question of language and violence will change dramatically if it’s a question of discussion rather than a question of debate.”

She encouraged the audience to avoid shaming, move beyond a confrontational approach to discussing issues and be cautious of smugness and dogmatism.

HOW FREE SPEECH BENEFITS THE PRIVILEGED The next speaker was Dr. Mark Harris, a visiting GRSJ professor, who explored how free speech benefits some groups more than others due to the influence of power and privilege.

He cited the example of Colin Kaepernick, the American football player he said was “blackballed” after he began kneeling in protest against racism and police brutality during the national anthem at NFL games.

“Colin Kaepernick, by virtue of colour and race, was silenced,” said Harris. “His freedom of speech was quelled because of his race. It was characterized as defamatory, as not being effectively or not being sufficiently respectful towards the American flag and the anthem.”

Likewise, Harris also argued that the abuse of freedom of speech can, in some contexts, constitute violence. He used the n-word as an example.

“It’s a word that’s steeped in and has meaning in centuries of violence and oppression,”

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”...If you support free speech, then even free speech itself has to be up for debate.”

he said. “I didn’t comprehend that. I came from Australia and didn’t understand the depth and enormity until I was taken aside by some African-American professors who said, ‘you can’t say that. You don’t know that means. It’s like someone slapping you in the face.’”

His speech also noted that absolute freedom of speech does not exist in Section 1 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which states that the rights and freedoms laid out in the charter are subject to reasonable limits.

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When taking questions from the audience, one student asked Harris to what extent culture played a role in affecting Indigenous communities. In particular, the student compared the Jewish culture he grew up in — which he said places an emphasis on refusing to adopt a victimhood mentality toward the Holocaust — to Indigenous cultures, which he argued were stuck in that mentality.

In response, Harris disagreed and argued that the long-term effects of transgenerational trauma have made it more difficult for Indigenous communities to heal from historical injustices.

“The pathways to education have been blocked [and] the pathways to having a home have been blocked for First Nations communities,” he said.

Wilkes, who said that she has relatives that died in the Holocaust, also spoke up after Harris and argued that the difference between colonialism and the Holocaust is that colonialism has occurred over multiple generations. This aspect thus makes it harder for future generations of the Indigenous community to recover.

DEFENDING THE OPEN EXCHANGE OF IDEAS The final speaker was political science professor Dr. Paul Quirk, who argued in favour of a libertarian approach to free speech.

He praised the American doctrine which claims that free speech should only be interfered with if there’s a clear and present

danger, but he also stated that future dangers could warrant interference too. This approach does not censor speech if it’s offensive or hurts people’s feelings.

“Feelings can be quite arbitrary, irrational, unwarranted,” he said. “If we’re responsible for any feeling that someone might have as a result of what we might say, we’re going to have a hard time being able to say anything because the ways in which people might react is sufficiently open-ended.”

Quirk also talked a lot about what he saw as the infringement of both left-wing and right-wing free speech on university campuses across Canada and America.

He cited two examples from former universities he worked at — a conservative professor from Marquette University who was fired over a “blog post,” and a professor going through the appointment process at the University of Illinois who was ultimately not hired after he made a number of aggressively pro-Palestinian tweets “that said things like, ‘I hope the Palestinians drive the Israelis into the sea.’”

In response, Quirk suggested that universities should be a place where a student can hear the entire range of debates across the political spectrum.

“University should be a place where somewhat more extreme positions [that] get a serious hearing in the political system can be considered because the university’s a place to learn,” he said. “Universities have been way short of that in their ability and willingness to protect speech on campus.” U

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EDITOR SAMUEL DU BOIS

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Why you can’t stop watching food videos

These days we consume our best meals by watching them be made rather than actually eating them.

Veronica Ciastko Staff Writer

If you’ve spent any time on Facebook, Twitter or Youtube you’ve seen them — Taco Bell copycat Crunchwrap Supremes and jalapeño corn poppers, Tinker Bell cupcakes and unicorn dip, caramel apple cheese balls and Oreogasm skillet brownies.

I’m talking about those strange time-lapse food videos — filmed from above with just a pair of disembodied hands making cheesy, fried, sugary food with little regard for to any actual recipe.

The most popular brands are Delish, owned by the massive media conglomerate Hearst, and Tasty owned by Buzzfeed. These videos amass thousands of views and shares. They even play in supermarkets, streaming from televisions propped above food aisles. They are the millennial Food Network and the true definition of “food porn.”

So, what is it about these videos that appeals to us so much?

THE VISION OF FOOD I talked to UBC Sociology Professor Amy Hanser, who teaches a course called “The Sociology of Food.” Although there is obviously something deeply psychological about the appeal of these videos — the instant gratification and the

intense pleasure that fills our brain when we watch a recipe made to completion — there are also fascinating sociological implications.

To start, these videos represent a new way of envisioning the food that we eat.

“Food wasn’t always an object of such careful representation,” said Hanser.

The evolution of food representation has sped up, predictably, with technological advancements.

Years ago, recipes were passed down orally through family members and friends. Later, they were written down and compiled into cookbooks. Then, with the advent of photography, those recipes started to be accompanied by pictures.

Decades later, television channels began featuring hour-long segments devoted entirely to food. And now we have the Delish-style videos, which have become an unending fixation for the internet, saturating every social media platform with countless hours of quick, colourful and immensely satisfying content.

As the visual access to food has increased, the weight and importance of the contents – the actual recipe – has fallen away.

Watch a Delish video. They’ll tell you to throw eggs into your cheese cornbread. But how many?

Who knows?

With the proliferation of food in visual media, there also

comes a surge of what Hanser called “food talk.” These are the think-pieces about dishes written like album reviews and the sections of magazines devoted to finding the best restaurants, food bloggers, vloggers, critics and “food destinations.” It is also responsible for the surge of multimillion-dollar advertising campaigns around “super-foods” like kale.

But, as Hanser points out, “there’s only so much food you can eat.” Three meals a day and some light snacking is enough for most, but there is still, inevitably, a limit which food videos do not have.

“You can watch all the videos you want, and can you ever get full?” said Hanser.

The only limit is time.

Another byproduct of food’s ubiquitous media presence is the way identity has formed around it. “[Food is] a site of personal, individual investment,” said Hanser.

Think about the way many vegans and gluten-free folks selfidentify with their dietary choices nearly in the same breath as their first name.

THE POLITICS OF THE FOODIE Vancouver is a hotbed of many food movements, from vegetarianism to locally-grown diets to the paleo diet to everything organic. It’s worth noting that it wasn’t always like this.

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Hanser traced many of the food movements back to the 1970s. Hippies identified food as an object of “political and moral concern.” Perhaps we are reliving that era. To hippies, something like Wonderbread — chemicalridden white bread that lasts for months on the shelf — was everything that was wrong with industrialized, mass produced food. To reject Wonderbread in favour of crusty brown bread from your local baker was a kind of political statement condemning capitalism and corporatization.

And to make your own bread was even better.

“It’s virtuous,” Hanser said regarding at-home cooking. There’s something satisfying and wholesome about making your own food, even when it turns out less delicious than what you could get at a restaurant.

Perhaps this explains some of the appeal of Delish videos, which makes homecooking seem effortless and accessible.

The other way to stay virtuous, while maybe eating something better than your own home-cooked slop, is to become a foodie.

The foodie is all about authenticity and local flavours.

They’re the backlash to the stuffy, elite world of overpriced gourmet cooking. They’re not without their own snobbishness, though.

All foodie-worthy food must be “elevated.”

Take, for example, a McDonald’s burger.

“Foodies do not go to McDonald’s,” Hanser said.

But a local restaurant that makes their own version of a Big Mac? A foodie would certainly try that.

To me, this sheds new light on Delish videos. Many of the recipes and videos are for “copycat” versions of low-quality, high-fat foods you’d find at Starbucks, Wendy’s or Applebee’s. The thought may be that if you make a meal at home, it has to be better for you. And you get to feel great – saintly, even – doing it.

Foodie culture, then, is a skirt-around to the strict rules of many food movements. Healthconscious and organic food movements usually condemn fried, ultra-sugary foods. But, if you go out and buy a $4 Cartem’s donut, it’s elevated, so it’s different. And if you make that food at home, digging your own fingers into the flour and dough, well, that’s even more different.

So, from all of these factors those two-minute-long food videos on your Facebook timeline take on a role as a hybrid extension of both the virtuousness of at-home cooking and the modern foodie ethos.

They are simply another way food has become an object; of identity, morality and media representation. Yum! U

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Bacterially-compromised limes and other observations from a night out Claire Lloyd Contributor

Something strange happens in the summer where I — no longer school-employed — agreed to things usually inconceivable for me to be doing. My default answer, no, was exchanged for a far more foreign and frightening pronunciation: yes.

They called me at 11 p.m. on a Monday. After the customary argument, I capitulated, and soon I found myself in a tiki bar with four boys, drinking with a two-foot long straw out of a shared booze bowl in which floated flaming limes.

Sam recommended that I drink out of a lime.

“It tastes like burnt ass,” he said.

We stayed until they turned on the lights and then we caught a bus north. We got into an empty Skytrain car and the boys blasted music while trying to hang inverted on train poles.

We got off in Chinatown, with no plan. Every bar was closing imminently, with one exception — the Roxy. They decided (I was denied input on the matter) that we would make the journey.

It was two o’clock by the time we got in. An unearthly red haze diffused the place. The average age was about forty. I was probably the youngest and certainly the most sober person there. Old men sat alone at tables, watching, seeming like permanent fixtures of the place.

We went to the bar to take some shots. I watched the bartender take a plastic pitcher of pre-cut lime wedges from the counter. Was this food safe? I reflected on the likely possibility of contamination: fruit unrefrigerated, open to the toxic vapours of dance perspiration and booze breath, fingered by a bartender accruing on his hands the filth of the night’s coins, cards, bills...

Surely, these limes were bacterially-compromised. These were the important questions I posed to myself as I swallowed the tequila that was handed me.

There was a band set up on stage playing covers. They had a repertoire of radio regurgitations and tween school dance songs.

I never saw the guitarist miss a beat — he tracked the rhythm with an accordion-like elongation and retraction of his neck. Dancing to some Top 40 staple, Sam showed me “digging,” which apparently is very trendy in Victoria right now.

A bouquet of flowers was circulating the crowd. I considered its mysterious origins. Was this a talisman of unrequited love? A drunk’s stolen cemetery souvenir?

Somehow it had arrived at the Roxy, the object of an unspoken game of hot potato. In time, it came to our group. Sam put a flower stem between his teeth and dramatically shimmied the bouquet over to a girl, who, clutching her heart, accepted them. The flower

“Surely, these limes were bacterially-compromised. These were the important questions I posed to myself as I swallowed the tequila that was handed me.”

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girl danced for a while with the boys. Sweaty bodies closed in, incrementally approaching wriggling walls of breathing under biological material.

The bathroom proved a lousy refuge from both crowd and music. Impossibly, the martian fog had thickened. A few women looked at themselves in the mirror, wobbling — muscles dissolving, bodies unable to bear yet another Taylor Swift cover, their ankles exhausted by stilettos or maybe they were just drunk. I envied them.

I returned to the dance floor, where one of the guys was now making out with the flower girl.

With little stealth Sam tried to Snapchat it but accidentally reversed the camera and was left instead with a ten-second recording of his chin.

A married couple waved the flower bouquet. People cheered for the mediocre band. My mother always said that when you were drunk you looked like your face was melting off. I now considered the profound truth of this statement.

Wading through the crowd of melted people was a man in his late thirties. He was vaguely familiar. I was fully prepared to let this near-recognition fade into the forgotten as he conveniently made for the exit, but by some miracle he decided to turn his head and look at me.

He stopped immediately. He stared for a moment, pointed his finger at me and over the

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heads of dancing people said, “Churchill.”

Yes, this was both the name of a British prime minister and maybe a geographic designation of a place of religious worship. This happened, also, to be the name of an educational institution with which I was intimately familiar: my high school.

The revelation was complete.

In the place of desks and dictionaries were barstools and beers, but there was no doubt.

He bent forward to speak in my ear.

“You shouldn’t be here,” he said.

I pointed him in the direction of the boys, who had been his students four years earlier, and he opened his arms in papal benevolence.

“Oh my God,” he said, hugging each in turn. He hugged us all again and then walked out the door with another man.

Soon the lights turned on and the crowd began moving.

The bouquet of flowers had found its final resting place on the ground, petals skewered by four-inch heel – pulpy from bouncing bodies.

After tying the laces on an Irish girl’s Doc Martens, we went to eat vegetarian donair across the street. They didn’t have any falafel so instead the guy put fries in. Michael got a cheeseburger and we put in a chicken nugget, tzatziki, hot sauce and my unfinished donair. It had all the makings of a disaster, but it was actually pretty palatable. U

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OCTOBER 17, 2017 TUESDAY

EDITOR MOIRA WYTON

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Places to Go: Finding love at first egg tart in Portugal Magarita de Guzman Contributor

Late night arrivals are always brutal. After failing to get off at the correct train station, it was around 10 p.m. before we figured out how get back into central Lisbon. This was our second destination on our train hopping journey across Portugal that had started back in Faro and would end in Porto.

I had zero expectations of the country when I first landed in it — perhaps this was for the best as I was pleasantly surprised and immediately taken by the beauty of the place.

After leaving the metro, Google Maps said we were only 290 metres away from our hostel, but what was not so great was the 26 metre elevation gain — little did I know that the rest of our days in this town would be spent going up and down steep hills.

Our adrenaline had finally run out by the time we hit our beds.

We didn’t even mind the music bumping from the GSpot Party Hostel down the street.

The next day, we decided to put a pause on exploring the city and take a popular day trip with some other friends who happened to be in Lisbon as well. We all settled on something that none of us had done: visiting Sintra.

Just under thirty kilometres away from the capital is the lush and almost impossibly picturesque town. It is a tourist’s dream because it has so many sights concentrated in one area. With only a single day to spend here, we decided to check out Peña Palace and the Castle of the Moors.

At around 10 a.m. in the morning, Sintra was crawling with tourists all trying to get to the same destinations. The line for the buses up to Peña seemed never-ending.

Luckily, a tuktuk driver happened to roll up, offering rides up to the palace. The cost for the five of us came to be the same as taking the bus — without second thoughts, the girls and I hopped in and zoomed

Seeing the ruinous Castle of Moors was well worth the sunburn .

past the long lineup, screaming and laughing as our driver raced the other tuktuks up the mountain.

Peña Palace looks as if it belongs in Disneyland with its mish-mash of architectural styles, brilliant colours and cartoonish details.

Being here makes you think you’ve been dropped into some fairytale.

It goes without saying that hours were spent taking pictures of each other with the beautiful backdrop.

It was well into the afternoon by the time we got to the ruinous

The narrow streets and cable cars reminded me of San Francisco.

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Castle of the Moors. Built by North African Moors between the eighth and tenth centuries, exploring the ancient ramparts and climbing the battlements transported us back in time. We were having so much fun going around that I almost didn’t notice the huge and angry sunburn that had developed on my shoulder. Almost.

Now for the actual city. Being students on a tight budget, we opted to take the free city tour offered by our hostel. Our guide

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was a short and bearded young local who was absolutely in love with his city. We started in Camoes Square, a popular meeting place for Lisboans (as proven by a protest and public rave that took place there during our stay), passed by the famed art deco Brasileira cafe frequented by artists and intellectuals of the early 20th century and took a peek into Livraria Bertrand, the oldest operating bookstore in the world.

The bookstore especially made an English literature major like myself drool all over the place.

From there, we continued on around the city for three hours until we ended at Praça do Comércio, a grand square surrounded by a palace in an open U-shape, facing the Tagus River, where the wealth from Portugal’s colonies would be brought in. With a dramatic farewell, our enthusiastic guide sang to us in Portuguese with such tear jerking emotion that our group couldn’t help but throw money to him before we left.

My travelling partner also happened to have a cousin studying in Lisbon who — after giving me a double cheek-kiss greeting that I was not expecting — took us on a trolley ride out to Belém, a district of Lisbon a bit further out from the centre. Here we went to the ever-busy Pasteis de Belém to see if the Portuguese egg tart would live up to all its hype (the answer is yes). I also discovered that Lisbon looks a lot like San Francisco: the West coast vibe with plenty of waterfront, the crazy hills, cable and streetcars everywhere and the Ponte de 25 Abril bridge, which looks almost identical to the

Golden Gate bridge. I definitely did a double take when I first saw it.

In the evening, we decided to find a fado club to hit up. Fado is a genre of intense and often sad traditional Portuguese song that sends shivers down my spine when I hear it. My friend suggested checking out Tasca do Chico, a hole-in-the-wall kind of place that she heard Anthony Bourdain rave about once.

We would have almost missed the indistinguishable green door that was the entrance to the bar were it not for the sweet song drifting out of the window and the small crowd gathered outside.

Only when the set was over were we allowed in. The place was extremely cozy and after saying “excuse me” about twenty times, we finally reached the tiny bar.

With a glass of white wine in my hands ten minutes later, the lights shut off save for a few red lanterns to set the mood.

This is the kind of place where magic is made from the contrast of grime and purity. I was squished up next to complete strangers, our body heat tangible in the air, but no one seemed to mind when we were rewarded with the raw beauty that left the fado singers’ mouth and the deft guitarists’ hands.

Cheap, cool and cultured, Lisbon joins the list of cities that have made me fall in love. Though not as mainstream a travel destination as London, Paris and Tokyo, something about it has captured my imagination. I now find myself oddly attached to this country which I once knew next to nothing about. U

OCTOBER 17, 2017 TUESDAY | features | 9 REAL LIFE MOVIE //

Places to Go: Madagascar is not just an animated movie with lemurs

Madagascar has been referred to as the eighth continent in recognition of its rich biodiversity.

Kai Yang Contributor

Madagascar, nicknamed “l’île rouge” for the red mountains that fill its highland heart, is an island nation located off the southeast coast of Africa.

Possessing flora and fauna found nowhere else on earth, Madagascar has been referred to as the eighth continent in recognition of its rich biodiversity. The fourth largest island in the world, Madagascar’s varied landscape — which includes everything from mountains, rainforests to tropical beaches — is a sight to behold.

But if the Madagascar School Project hadn’t given a presentation about the school they’d built on the island, I never would have signed up to volunteer in this wonderful country. The red island is a destination few have heard of and even fewer have visited.

After a political coup in 2012, Madagascar’s tourism industry declined. My forty day sojourn wasn’t struggle free — I got food poisoning, twice — but I never felt unsafe in Madagascar and will always cherish my memories of the Malagasy countryside with its rice fields, zebu cattle and banana trees. The Malagasy are kind and welcoming, eager to share their culture and learn about others.

In which other country would you be invited to attend a stranger’s funeral? As I was walking home from the funeral with Anna, a

Malagasy teacher from the school where I volunteered, I asked her if she had known the man who passed away.

“No,” she replied. He had been related to one of the school’s guards.

I was surprised and asked why she had attended. School had been cancelled for the afternoon to allow teachers to attend the funeral.

“Fihavanana. It’s a Malagasy word that means all the Malagasy people love all the Malagasy people.” Loosely translated to English, it means solidarity.

I definitely felt a sense of fihavanana while volunteering at Sekoly Tenaquip. Teachers and students, eager to learn English, were always ready with a smile and positive attitude. Despite the barebones learning conditions — no internet or smart boards in sight — students diligently attended class each day, some walking for hours to arrive at school.

Tenaquip is nestled in the mountains of a village called Ambohiborosy, thirty kilometres from the capital city, Antananarivo.

Driving to the capital, however, could take up to two hours on the bumpy dirt roads that snaked through the mountains. Each year, the countryside roads were destroyed by floods of the rainy season.

I lived in a solar-powered volunteer house on the school campus. Alone. Well, alone if you don’t count the silverfish, spiders and cockroaches that shared the house with me. I got used to

Tenaquip is nestled in the mountains of a village called Ambohiborosy.

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showering with long-legged spiders crawling up the walls. Spiders were a fair tradeoff for not being eaten alive by mosquitoes each night — so effective were the spiders that I never needed a mosquito net to sleep.

During the school week, I ate lunch at the school cafeteria to better integrate myself in the community. The school provided students with lunch and for some of them, it was their only meal of the day. Rice was a big part of the Malagasy diet and was eaten for all three meals — breakfast, lunch and dinner. Lunch consisted of two things: a big portion of rice and a smaller side of vegetables. There was also a cup of ranovola — burnt rice tea — which is a popular drink in Madagascar.

While burnt rice doesn’t sound appetizing, the tea itself is sweet and refreshing. Its deceptive appearance reminds me of the misconceptions against developing countries. There is a negative media portrayal of developing countries as dangerous, rife with crime and disease. When I visited Madagascar, however, I fell in love with its warm people, beautiful landscapes and unique culture.

When most people think of Madagascar, the first thing that springs to mind is the eponymous Dreamworks movie and lemurs.

When I think of Madagascar, I remember the friendships I gained and the people who warmly welcomed me, a complete stranger, into their lives. U

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OCTOBER 17, 2017 TUESDAY

EDITOR EMMA HICKS

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Op-ed: The AMS spent too much money on the furniture in the Nest

“There are no words to describe the atmosphere of La Jolla, San Diego.”

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Their Campus: Experiencing my second first day of university Lara Gillatt Contributor

Freshman year is all about experiencing new things, getting to know campus, shaping friendships and putting down roots for the next four years, but what if it only lasted for 10 weeks?

When I arrived at the University of California San Diego, I was a first year all over again. Ushered into a day-long orientation where I met people from all across the globe, it all felt eerily familiar to last September.

Being on exchange in second year, as I have been told, is a little weird.

You build a foundation at your home university just to abandon it after a year. However, my first year at UBC was a little different. Having lived in Vancouver for many years prior to going to UBC, the city is my home.

I never experienced any culture shock — I know the place like the back of my hand. I wanted to go on

exchange to get to know somewhere completely different and here I am.

There are no words to describe the atmosphere of La Jolla, San Diego. It seems every coffee shop is playing The O.C. soundtrack — it’s just so cool, relaxing and unbelievably pretty. The university sits atop a hill and the bus goes up a winding road with a shocking turquoise view framed by the golden waves of La Jolla Shores. The locals rarely glance out the window.

This is a remarkably unique experience. I’m only here for one quarter, which is only ten weeks. In that timeframe you don’t need to put down any roots and therefore don’t experience any of the typical concerns of first years. You don’t have to make lifelong friends.

Building strong friendships for such little time is purely optional and surprisingly that’s what makes them more authentic. As a second year, you don’t have to worry whether you can

handle a college-level course load, you know you can.

The alleviation of the intensity of first year has made these first few weeks far more enjoyable. There’s no pressure about everything going perfectly well, because it doesn’t really matter. After all, it’s only ten weeks. You can get out of your head and enjoy the best parts of going to a new university — exploring unknown places, meeting new people and being enthralled by interesting classes.

In a way, going on exchange for one quarter is the best way to get the most authentic version of first year. It’s truly invigorating living a new university experience of surfing, bonfires, avoiding sororities handing out flyers, latenight studying, concerts, pointless barbeques and football games.

But more than anything it’s the experience of starting fresh, even if it’s only for a little while. U

The “latte chairs” are too much for what we can afford, argues Soh.

Leo Soh Contributor

For us caffeine-addicted students, it’s easy to go to Uppercase and buy a $2.45 drip coffee every morning and not think twice about it. In the grand scheme of things, $12.25 a week is not a huge investment. However, for those who like something a little sweeter, a latte costs $4.90, which is a 40 per cent price raise for milk and espresso. It also adds up to $24.50 a week — double the price of what the drip coffee costs. Tastier? Yes. Worth it? No. The AMS decided they deserved “latte chairs.”

Despite taking out a $68 million construction loan, the AMS shelled out money for furniture that is comfortable but unnecessarily overpriced.

Shockingly, the Steelcase roller chairs that you see in bookable rooms and various offices (including The Ubyssey’s) cost $804 each. The MTS foam stackable chairs that are wellstocked in most general-use rooms cost the AMS $213.30 apiece. The Allermuir plastic stackable chairs, of which there are hundreds in the building, cost $402 each. Last but not least, the Allermuir barstools lining the main hallways cost $299 each.

To put these numbers into context, the AMS charged an annual SUB renewal fee that scaled to a maximum value of $100 per student. To put that in context, if they paid full price, one roller chair cost the AMS an entire year’s worth of contributions from eight students.

In comparison, IKEA sells various similar models for a fraction of the price. For example, the MARKUS swivel

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chair, which bears an uncanny similarity to the $850 Steelcase Think model, costs $169.

When asked about the AMS’s spending on furniture, Communications Manager Lori McNulty said the society takes “fiscal responsibility very seriously” and that “the retail dollars quoted in the article simply do not align with purchasing practices at the AMS.” But even if the AMS did get discounts based on volume, the furniture in the Nest is opulent, and cheaper alternatives are available.

Although most of us have made an irresponsible purchase at some point, these prices merit special criticism. As frivolous as “latte chairs” sound, they are indicative of the irresponsible spending that are now characteristic of the AMS. Furthermore, we the student body foot the bill for such luxuries, even though we have little to no say in how our fees are spent.

The chairs in the Nest are indisputably comfortable, and have higher build quality than similar models from IKEA. But for a society of financially challenged college students, I can’t help but question whether buying latte chairs was the right decision, when drip coffee versions were on the menu. With crowded study spaces, overpopulated shared club rooms and a $68 million construction loan, there are just so many other ways the AMS could have allocated that money.

In the future, skip the lattes, save the cash. U Leo Soh is a fourth-year student studying English honours and economics. He is The Ubyssey’s former Our Campus coordinator.

OCTOBER 17, 2017 TUESDAY | opinions | 11 ADVICE COLUMN //

Ask Natalie: How do I get past the mental block I’m having with school? it the wrong holiday, but people will try reading into its meaning so much and it would be hilarious. The Easter Bunny is a little too under the radar.

The tooth fairy has no real form.

Santa Claus. It would be so funny.

“Natalie, When is it okay to start celebrating Christmas?”

Have you seen my desk? It already has Christmas lights up.

I may enjoy the spooky holiday of Halloween, but in my heart it’s always about Christmas. I come from the part of Canada that gets snow (read: everywhere but Vancouver) and I’ve never really gotten over the fact that I don’t get a white Christmas every year.

It brings a peppermint-flavoured tear to my eye.

I listen to my main man, Michael Bublé, all year round. I love gingerbread and bake all the time. I love the smell of the heaters coming on for the first time in the year. I love snow. I love when the lights go up downtown. I like that everyone seems happier and more friendly in December. I think it’s so funny that we lie to kids about a man who comes down their chimney. I try to live like Christmas is all year round.

I’m starting to think this is a recurring theme for me. On second thought, maybe don’t dress up as Santa Claus for Halloween or I may hunt you down and force you to hang out with me. U EMMA HICKS

Take care of your mental health before school.

Natalie Morris Design Editor

“Dear Natalie, I’ve hit a bit of a mental block on school work. I’m in my final year and I really just don’t care anymore. A month and a half in and I’m ready to throw in the towel already. How do I get my ass back in gear so I don’t flunk my last few classes?”

I know how you feel. Use this boredom to push yourself. When you don’t feel like doing your readings, take a break and do the things you want to do even less.

Look up the Vancouver housing market. Look up the Vancouver job market. Look up other cities that you’re probably going to have to move to after graduation which are vastly less fun than Vancouver.

Find out how much a personal website costs and spend the next hour comparing prices on domain names.

Soon, you’ll be excited to go back to your readings.

In all seriousness, yes, it’s about time that you’ve hit a wall. Maybe you’re like me and are in your 18th straight year in school and you’re excited that you can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. It’s normal. You just need to power through it.

Try to treat this hump like every other hump you’ve gotten over. Do your work, write your midterms, sharpen your pencils. It’s fine. It’s the senior slump and it sucks. But you’ll get through it. You’ve gotten through every one before.

“Natalie, I can’t decide if I’m not enjoying my classes because I’m bad at them or I’m bad at them because I’m not enjoying them?”

I’m sure you’re not bad at all your classes. If all your classes are in one subject and you’re doing poorly and you normally do well, it might be that you’ve just hit your max on how much of that one subject you can handle. It might be that you’re bad at the one subject, but if you had a good track record with it before, I wouldn’t jump to that conclusion.

If you’re taking a range of classes and you’re doing poorly, that might mean that you’re pushing yourself too much and you should re-evaluate how much you should put on your plate at once. If you’re only doing poorly at only a couple, it might just be that it’s not your strong suit. That’s okay. Power your way through this term and regroup next semester.

But, if this is all your courses and they’re a range of different topics, then consider that sometimes — and I’m not a backseat therapist but a ton of students have similar issues — mental health plays a part in how we can process, excel and enjoy school.

If you have a history with or think you could possibly be affected by mental health, look into getting help. Everyone gets stressed and everyone goes has to make sure their mental health is taken care of the best they can.

Take care of yourself first and make youserlf the priority.

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99 things to do at UBC: Housing woes, Learn from these Sauder snakes and collisions on Main Mall informative clubs on campus Tristan Wheeler Staff Writer

#1 -Find The Ubyssey

Second floor of Nest by the climbing wall. Easy. Next.

Arshiya Malik Contributor

We can learn a lot from our academics, but we can learn even more from our extracurricular activities. Whether it’s learning how to write, how to defend yourself or how to dance, UBC is full of various clubs that can teach you something outside of the classroom.

Krav Maga An interesting take on self defense, Krav Maga is designed for ultimate survival. An Israeli form of contact combat, Krav Maga is widely recognized as the most comprehensive reality based self-defense system in the world today. Interested in developing fighting skills, improving strength and tactic, and generally having a killer time? UBC Krav Maga Club is for you.

UBC Salsa-Rueda Club For the love of dancing join the UBC Salsa Club. It’s the perfect opportunity to learn the feisty Cuban dance form, Salsa-rueda, and meet loads of people.

Promising a super energetic routine, salsa-ing couples dance together and trade partners around a circle as a caller yells out moves. For all dance lovers UBC Salsa Club is the place to be.

AMS Writer’s Guild Looking for a welcoming space to share your writing? For all those creative writers out there, the AMS Writer’s Guild is your safe haven. Monthly readings and contests will keep you inspired and on your feet. Brimming with talent and a completely nonjudgemental audience, a journey of literary transformation awaits those who join this club. Check out their blog here.

#2 – Write for The Ubyssey Take a look at this. I’m writing for the hacks! Easy! Next. #3 – Drink with The Ubyssey Easier said than survived. #16 – Get literally bitten by a Sauder Snake Sauder can be a scary place for people like me: a person who doesn’t own a suit. It’s a shiny, modern place where people learn how to do the networking and participate in the finances. I feel out of place whenever I’m inside.

The people who feel comfortable within its walls — business students — have gained notoriety on campus.

They are cunning, profit-oriented and cutthroat — they will do anything for a buck. I didn’t know how severe this was until today.

I know that the moniker “snake” has become overused and hurtful, but this guy was literally hissing at me. His tongue darted in and out of his mouth as he walked in a serpentine motion towards me. I watched as a mouse shaped bulge was stuck in his neck from lunch. As soon as he was close enough to me I heard a rattle. I repeat, this is not a dig at BCom students, he had a temporal gland system used to produce a neurotoxin that immobilizes his

Oh shit! Here I am turning into a snake.

prey for easy consumption.

This was an actual snake at Sauder and I got bit.

Medical attention was needed.

Unfortunately, the only antidote was major tax cuts along with

UBC Red Cross Club A mix of local and international service opportunities, the UBC Red Cross is a humanitarian club that forms a link between UBC students and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent movement.

Spreading awareness about global issues, fundraising for international appeals and getting involved with local volunteer communities affiliated with the Lower Mainland Canadian Red Cross, Vancouver General Hospital, and the UBC Food Bank, are some of the things students of this club are involved in.

UBC E-sports Association A dream come true for all gamers, the UBC E-sports Association is dedicated to fostering an inclusive gaming community.

They host various events including tournaments, fan meets, icebreakers, viewing parties, mentorships, giveaways and creative contests. U

How on Earth am I going to tell my parents that their favourite son is turning into a snake?

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organizing a networking social for his latest tech startup. #59 – Walk head-on into someone else on Main Mall because both of you were scrolling through Facebook Class change over is a hassle.

For about 10 minutes every hour hundreds of students run out into Main Mall, clogging the walkways with zoned out students and inconveniencing the dozens of bikers who just want to go really fast.

With this many people, collision is the name of the game. While most people have the wherewithal to know what’s going on around them, there’s been a few times where I’ve been too engrossed in my new favourite website — snakefacts.weebly.com — on my phone and crashed into someone.

My goal was to purposefully crash into someone, while distracted by social media. I scoped out the plaza in front of Koerner Library, waiting for the clock to strike 12:50 p.m. As soon as classes ended, people spilled out onto Main Mall. I surveyed the crowd, seeing who looked the most engrossed in their phone.

A guy lazily wandered his way down Main Mall: my first victim.

Setting off towards him, enter distraction mode but before we collide, he dodges. I sputtered out “sorry man!” and he gave me a look that only happens when some stranger beelines towards you in a crowded veranda.

This happened a few more times and with each interaction it felt as if I was inching closer towards someone punching me. Success finally

appeared in the form of me charging into a guy like a crazy person. At the last minute he turned away and I smacked right into his backpack.

I say this counts towards the list. #37 Cry about the Vancouver housing market If you’re reading this now you likely live in Vancouver, somehow.

If you’ve ever tried to get a place off campus you know what I’m talking about — painfully scrolling through Craigslist listings that are over two grand a month and within boxes made of reconstituted Styrofoam. My place fits this description. Central plumbing has become a luxury to me. When I hear a flushing toilet, a tear comes to my eyes.

Water and porcelain sounds more beautiful than Mozart or a Radiohead album to me.

It would probably have been better to be caveman. They at least had heat in the form of fire. Me? I don’t. I shivered through the winter underneath layers of Walmart blankets and self-loathing.

What about a bed? Nope. I just have to position my body more more reclined in the same place I do everything else.

There’s no kitchen. I drink and eat whatever falls from the slumped waterlogged ceiling in my room/ bathroom/kitchen/living room. I can’t even stand because the ceiling is so short and there’s no place to sit.

The doctor says that my body can only withstand so long in a place like this. He’s given me six months to live.

I live underneath a sink and my life is falling apart. U

SCIENCE

OCTOBER 17, 2017 TUESDAY

EDITOR NIVRETTA THATRA

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Don’t expect the universe to wipe your post-MATH 100 tears

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The plant on the left is dying due to Crown Gall disease; it has too many roots and is infected with an “evil” Agrobacterium. The plant on the right is alive, with a normal amount of roots, and it has happy, healthy, “good” Agrobacterium which has defeated the “evil” Agrobacterium.

Undergrads attack plant disease using microscopic friends Isabel Jankowski Contributor

With a booming biotech industry, students from all areas of study are wondering how they can get involved in the field and help make an innovative change. This year, the students of UBC iGEM are doing just that by trying to attack a globally relevant plant disease using our microscopic friends — bacteria.

So what is UBC iGEM? Every year, UBC puts together a team of undergraduate students and graduate advisors from diverse backgrounds to compete at the annual International Genetically Engineered Machinei (iGEM) competition. This year’s team includes students from microbiology, biochemistry, computer science, chemical and biological engineering and even psychology.

Each team gets the opportunity to pitch and prove a novel synthetic biology idea to show what they have accomplished in terms of scientific innovation, entrepreneurship and/or social outreach. Past teams have built business plans to support their project ideas, run educational synthetic biology programs and collaborated with other iGEM teams from around the world.

The goal of these extracurriculars is to help educate the public about genetic

The 2017 iGEM team.

engineering and prove that their team’s idea will have an impact in and out of the science community.

This year, UBC’s team has decided to attack Crown Gall disease — a common plant disease causing tumors and root overgrowth in a variety of crops. This disease is especially problematic in enclosed spaces, such as greenhouses.

Crown Gall is caused by a bacterium called Agrobacterium, though the bacterium alone does not necessarily cause disease.

However, it can easily become infectious by taking up specific circular pieces of DNA from the environment called plasmids.

Once the bacteria has taken up the proper disease-causing plasmid, it can infect common crops such as tomato plants, peach trees and even tobacco plants.

As Mitch Syberg-Olsen, a member of UBC iGEM, explained, “[Agrobacterium is] a bacteria that is able to transfer this dangerous DNA into a plant cell, and force the plant to express those genes, which is absolutely crazy.”

Syberg-Olsen, along with team member Tamar Av-Shalom, further explained their plan to solve this problem.

“We are [engineering a new] plasmid that codes for scissors, that is going to spread through the Agrobacterium population and

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cut the bad plasmid, preventing the disease from spreading,” explained Syberg-Olsen.

The “scissors” that he speaks of is a gene encoding CRISPR Cas9 — one of the newest tools in molecular biology. CRISPR Cas9 is able to target and cut specific sequences of DNA, making the DNA of interest non-functional in most cases. The hope is that by introducing a CRISPR Cas9 — which targets the diseasecausing plasmid — to a pathogenic Agrobacterium, this bacterium will lose the bad plasmid, and no longer be able to infect the plant.

“Essentially, you can think about it like you’re vaccinating the bacteria from being able to infect the plant,” said Av-Shalom.

Sound complicated? Well, it is, which is what makes the fact that these undergraduates can do this science all the more exciting.

While doing research, the team found that not much research has actually been done on the topic of introducing a new plasmid to stop Agrobacterium infection.

According to Av-Shalom, “there are actually probably only maybe three to four labs worldwide that we’ve seen […] that are doing cellular biology with Agrobacterium. It’s cool, but it makes it hard.”

Currently, the team is working hard in the lab to finish their prototype for this year’s iGEM competition on November 13 in Boston, Massachusetts. When asked about the potential implications of their current project, Syberg-Olsen was optimistic.

“Even if our project isn’t perfect off the bat, if we can show that it has some sort of function, it is definitely going to be proof that at some point, this can work,” he said.

“We’re just undergrads doing this over a summer, so it’s not like we’re expecting this to be absolutely game changing, but it is unique. And I think that’s what’s cool about it; it’s something that makes sense but hasn’t been shown before.” U

You and your academic turmoils are some of the most insignificant things in the universe. And that’s okay!

Steffani Grondin Contributor

You just got your MATH 100 quiz back and you got a painful 30 per cent. You call your mom, tears streaming into the deplorable burger you just purchased from the dining hall and tell her how it is the end of the world...maybe even the universe.

But, you and your academic turmoils are some of the most insignificant things in the universe. And that’s okay!

In the grand scheme of the universe, how important are we really?

Let’s start with the sun, which has provided warmth, comfort and embarrassing tan lines for 4.5 billion years. Our sun is located one astronomical unit (au) away from us, or for the astronomically uninclined, the equivalence of six trillion French bulldogs lined up tip to tail.

Although a rare commodity in Vancouver, we know that the sun is essential for life on Earth.

However, our sun is a G2 star, which is just a fancy way of saying it is completely average. It isn’t extremely hot or bright and it couldn’t care less about your tan lines. Still, it is responsible for supporting nine million species. Being average has never looked better.

Yet, the sun is just one piece in our solar system. Orbiting the sun are eight planets, each with their own unique eccentricities.

These planets are family to us Earthlings, as they are the closest things to us. But, at their nearest, Earth and the farthest planet Neptune are 31 au apart, which means a separation distance of 186 trillion French bulldogs.

Even though our solar system is huge, there’s more to be discovered. Imagine all the other stars with planets like ours.

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From best estimates, our galaxy contains one-hundred billion stars, most of which are much more impressive than our sun. If only one per cent of these stars had hospitable planets with a similar worldwide number of students enrolled in MATH 100, that would mean three billion upset first years.

Your problems are beginning to look a whole lot smaller.

Remember when Han Solo said his ship could do the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs? Imagine travelling 28.5 gigaparsecs!

While a parsec is actually a unit of distance rather than time, travelling to the boundaries of the observable universe would require one septillion Han Solo’s. That’s so many Han Solo’s that you could replace every creature, planet and person in Star Wars with Han Solo and still have extras.

What if I told you that everything we’ve discussed thus far only makes up four per cent of the entire universe? The other 96 per cent is dominated by dark matter and energy, which is a substance more mysterious than bigfoot wearing an invisibility cloak in the Bermuda Triangle at night.

All of human knowledge has only inched up to understanding four per cent of everything, so knowing 30 per cent of differential calculus isn’t too shabby.

By this point, you should see how insignificant your mistakes are. Perhaps one day you will find your significant place in the cosmos, but for now, don’t beat yourself up about that MATH 100 quiz. But maybe cut back on your attendance at Pit Night. U Steffani Grondin is a third-year combined honours physics and astronomy student at UBC and is co-president of the UBC Astronomy Club.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017 TUESDAY

EDITOR LUCY FOX

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’Birds down Wolfpack and Heat, solidify top spot in Pacific Division Olamide Olaniyan Staff Writer

The UBC men’s soccer team got back its winning ways this weekend, taking two more victories to maintain their spot at the top of the Pacific Division and punch an early ticket to the Canada West playoffs.

Over the weekend, the Thunderbirds defeated the Thompson Rivers University Wolfpack (TRU) 3-1 and shut out the UBC Okanagan Heat (UBCO) 1-0.

“In the case of last night, we persevered. We were resilient,” UBC Head Coach Mike Mosher said after Saturday’s game. “And we said the same thing today. Even beforehand, we said ‘hey, if it’s zero-zero at half-time, we’re okay with that.’”

“We’re okay because we feel that we’ve got enough quality — we’ve got enough depth to come in and that we can win games in the second-half,” said Mosher.

On Friday, a lone Wolfpack penalty kick in the 17th minute put the visitors ahead early — a lead they managed to hold for most of the match.

But the Thunderbirds had a full arsenal ready to go in the second half, scoring all three of their goals in quick succession. In

the 82nd minute, UBC’s Patrick Izett received a pass from fellow midfielder Mackenzie Cole and fired the ball straight into the Wolfpack’s top right corner.

Five minutes later, Izett served a cross to third-year defender Connor Guilherme who headed it in for the ’Bird’s second goal. Firstyear midfielder Mihai Hodut slid a third goal into the net in the 89th — sealing the deal.

“Patrick is a quality player. I think he’s — on his days — one of the best players in the country, in this league,” said Mosher the next day about Izett’s Friday performance. “The goal yesterday was tremendous. You’re not going to see many better goals than that.

“He’s worked really hard all season and he’s getting some rewards for it.”

At the start of Saturday’s match, both the Thunderbirds and the Heat were closely matched. The game was played mostly in the midfield with the occasional dangerous attacks.

That stalemate ended in the second half, as the intensity of the ’Birds’ attacks ramped up.

They would finally break down UBCO’s defence in the 60th minute. Izett suddenly tore past defenders to receive a through pass and then sent a long cross to the

left side. Waiting there, unmarked, was forward Zach Verhoven who cut to the right and shot a streaker from the top of the box into the right corner of the net.

“We preserve Zach sort of in the first half, bring him in in the second half when the game gets a little bit more open — which sort of suits him a little bit more — and again, there’s another super talented guy who’s got some qualities and that was a fantastic strike as well for that goal,” Mosher said of the second-year striker. “I’m really happy for him too.”

According to Mosher, the team was missing a few players going into the game, some due to injury and one due to a yellow card accumulation. He credited the rest of his team for holding it down.

“Some of the guys came in and stepped up,” he said.

At the top of the Pacific Division with a playoff spot clinched and two more regular season games to go, the ’Birds are flying high. But there are bigger challenges to face — the team will have to keep it together in order to end the season well.

“We just want to make sure that we’re really sharp and clicking in the attacking half of the field as we go into playoffs and continue to be nice and tight

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Women’s field hockey are CanWest champions… again Salomon Micko Benrimoh Staff Writer

Remember when you used to have an iPod and the first song that would play was Vampire Weekend’s “A-punk”? Remember how it got so repetitive and tiring?

That’s probably how the UBC Thunderbirds women’s field hockey team feels after being crowned Canada West champions for a record 25th time. If anything, Queen’s “We are the Champions” is probably the song that every player on the team is sick of at this point.

That said, this past weekend’s Canada West crowning was the first time the ’Birds have won two Canada West titles in a row since 2013 when their eight year title streak was ended by the University of Victoria Vikes. The ’Birds actually already won the title last week when they beat the University of Victoria Vikes twice in a weekend double header — the ’Birds didn’t even have to play their final homestand of the season against the University of Calgary Dinos to raise the Canada West trophy.

That didn’t stop UBC from having another dominating weekend, taking both Saturday’s and Sunday’s games against the Dinos.

Saturday’s game was the bigger battle of the two match ups, with both teams braving the cold, wet conditions at Wright Field.

Calgary — who went into Saturday morning’s game with an 0-5 record — have not won a game since

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Heat keeper Mitch McCaw gets his hands on the ball surrounded by the ’Birds.

and really stingy defensively,” Mosher said. U The Thunderbirds will face the Trinity Western University

Spartans on Friday, October 20 and will finish off their regular season against the University of Fraser Valley Cascades on Saturday, October 21.

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89-85

Western

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Sorry Dinos, the ’Birds are unstoppable!

October 22, 2011. It didn’t seem like that though, as the Dinos found a way past UBC goalie Gabriella Switzer in the third minute off a penalty corner.

The T-Birds fought back and equalized just before the end of the first half after forward Margaret Pham beat Dinos goalie Madison Arbuckle. Jordyn Faiczak and Sophie Jones would add two more UBC goals in the 49th and 62nd minutes respectively to complete the comeback in dominating fashion.

The sun cleared for Sunday’s game and it was under those golden conditions that the Thunderbirds gave a worthy, golden performance — a 6-0 blowout. The game started a bit slower, with only one goal scored in the first half by UBC’s Emily Martin. The second half saw

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the ’Birds go on a scoring spree, putting five past Arbuckle in the span of just 16 minutes courtesy of Sara Goodman, Hannah Eborall, Margaret Pham and a pair from Meghan Hayden.

UBC will end their season on a by-week as they prepare to face off with the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) champion on November 3 at Wright Field for the U Sports national championships.

The ’Birds will be looking to win their seventh straight U Sports National Championship.

To put that into perspective, UBC’s fifth year athletes will have the chance to hold a national championship medal from every single year they’ve been a Thunderbird.

Talk about history making. U

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UBC

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Calgary

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UBC

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Mount Royal

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UBC

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United Brothers

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Alberta

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UBC

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Calgary

0-1

UBC

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UBC

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Calgary

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UBC

1-3

Alberta

Rugby

UBC

43-19

Westshore RFC

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UBC

1-0

UBCO

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Saskatchewan 25-29

UBC

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UBC

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Acadia

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Mount Royal

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UBC

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Calgary

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’Birds clinch Canada West playoff spot after clash with Calgary Ryan Neale Contributor

With their season on the line, the UBC Thunderbirds women’s rugby team battled the Calgary Dinos on Friday evening. Though they were ultimately defeated 27-22, the close score-line means that the team will still qualify for Canada West playoffs.

“I’m actually quite proud of their performance. In the secondhalf, they came out firing. This is a loss, obviously, but we’re within seven points [of winning], which is a bonus. So that speaks loudly for us,” T-Birds head coach Maria Gallo remarked after the game.

The start of the game was rough for the ’Birds — the Dinos struck in the 4th minute, when some poor tackling by UBC allowed Calgary winger Emmanuella Anye to speed into the try zone. This was followed by a 9th minute Calgary try, this time courtesy of Cassidy Jones.

Four minutes later, Dinos winger Samantha May added another five points to the Dinos’ total.

After fifteen minutes, the score was 17-0 in favour of the visitors.

With that, the Thunderbirds moved to slow the pace of the game down, limit Calgary’s explosive attacks and create more set plays for their own back-line.

Just as things were starting to pick up for the home side, UBC

captain Mackenzie Carson was hit high, causing her to leave the game prematurely. Not a group to give up, the T-Birds continued to pound the ball. After a few phases at the tryline, fly-half Alayna Scramstad jumped a gap between the uprights. After a conversion by winger Brooke Bazian, the score was 17-7 at the half.

The Thunderbirds came out swinging in the second. In the 43rd, Bazian dissected the Dinos defence from midfield, scoring a 50 metre try. She subsequently converted her own play, cutting the deficit to three points.

Calgary — in search of some momentum — got back on the board in the 51st. The Dinos’ Berlyn Seselha took the ball from the scrum and used her size to plow through two UBC defenders enroute to the try zone. Her try highlighted the T-Birds’ main weakness in the match: lack of size and speed.

In response, the home squad marched right back to the Dinos’ 22 metre line. From there, UBC’s Lyric Atchison proceeded to run it in from 20 metres after wearing out Calgary’s defence with 10 phases.

The ensuing conversion was just short, leaving it a three-point game at 22-19 for the visitors.

UBC excitement wouldn’t last long. In the 63rd, Dinos scrum half Charity Corcilles-Herring outran the ’Birds defence on the

UBC goes to work on defence against the Dinos.

left wing to up Calgary’s margins.

The tricky angle of conversion meant Calgary walked away with five out of seven possible points.

Following the theme of the match, the T-Birds went straight back to work, attacking the Dinos’ territory. The series ended with a 68th minute Bazian penalty goal, cutting the score to 27-22.

Unfortunately for UBC, a hands-in-the-ruck penalty killed the momentum late in the half, ending an electrifying match at 27-22 in favour of Calgary.

The silver lining of the match was that — although considered a ‘must win’ game for UBC — the T-Birds still qualify for the Canada West Final Four with a

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bonus point (awarded to teams for losing by less than seven points).

Knowing her try extended UBC’s season, Atchison said postgame, “I don’t think it was all me, my team worked hard to get it and I just ran it in.”

“There’s nervous excitement now,” said Gallo, as the team looks ahead to playoffs. U

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